Thursday, May 24, 2018

Israel Needs to Protect Its Borders. By Whatever Means Necessary.

Israelis
try to slow the progression of fire in a field near the Kibbutz of
Mefallesim, caused by incendiaries tied to kites flown by Palestinian
protesters from across the border, on Tuesday

TEL
AVIV — It is customary to adopt an apologetic tone when scores of
people have been killed, as they were this week in Gaza. But I will
avoid this sanctimonious instinct and declare coldly: Israel had a clear
objective when it was shooting, sometimes to kill, well-organized
“demonstrators” near the border. Israel was determined to prevent these
people — some of whom are believed to have been armed, most apparently
encouraged by their radical government — from crossing the fence
separating Israel from Gaza. That objective was achieved.

Of
course, the death of humans is never a happy occasion. Still, I feel no
need to engage in ingénue mourning. Guarding the border was more
important than avoiding killing, and guarding the border is what Israel
did successfully.

Why so many
thousands of Gazans decided to approach that fence, even though they
were warned that such acts would be lethal, is beyond comprehension.
Excuses and explanations are many: The event was declared
a “march of return,” supposedly an attempt by Palestinian refugees to
return to their places of origin within Israel; it was tied in many news reports to the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem; it was explained
by referring to undesirable living conditions in Gaza and the lack of
prospects for improvement; it was explained as related to
intra-Palestinian political conflict
and to the need of Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, to divert
the attention from its many failures. All of those things may have some
degree of validity, but they don’t explain why people joined these
demonstrations.

Obviously, the people
of Gaza weren’t seriously thinking that Israel would give them a “right
of return” if they only marched in numbers large enough. And they
probably realized that United States would not rescind its decision to
open an embassy in Jerusalem, either. And they knew that for the
economic situation to improve something more systematic must take place
than protests.

So why did they march, and why were some of them killed?

They
marched because they are desperate and frustrated. Because living in
Gaza is not much better than living in hell. They marched against Israel
because they dislike Israel, and because they cannot march against
anyone else. Israel puts Gaza under siege, bombs it occasionally, and is
still remembered as an occupying power and as the country whose
establishment made many Palestinians consider themselves refugees to
this day. They marched to Israel because the alternative to marching
against Israel would be to march against Hamas, a regime whose actions
and policies make Gaza suffer. But if people had dared do that, their
government would no doubt have killed scores of them without much
hesitation.

Israel has a soft belly.
Unlike all the other regimes in the Middle East, it accepts basic
Western values and thus tries to minimize casualties. It also has an
impressive military power, so it’s easy to accuse it of “disproportional
response.” And of course, it is the country that could lift the siege
on Gaza.

Critics of Israel tend to
mix two types of complaints about its actions in recent days. Why did
Israel shoot, rather than use other means of preventing people from
crossing the border? And why does Israel isolate Gaza, making its
economic situation so dire and its population so desperate? These
criticisms must be answered separately, as one — the shooting — is
tactical, and the other, the isolation, is strategic.

First, let’s begin with undisputed facts: The marches were at least partly orchestrated by Hamas. And according to Hamas, most demonstrators killed by Israel were members of the group.
This was not a peaceful act of protest. This was a provocation by an
organization known to engage in acts of terrorism. Thus, Israel had no
choice but to treat it as an attempt not just to violate its territorial
integrity but also to attack it.

Israel
had to take precautions against its soldiers and citizens being killed
or kidnapped. It had to make sure that thousands of Palestinians did not
force a total shutdown of southern Israel until all infiltrators were
located and detained. Knowing Hamas and its tactics, Israel assumed —
for good reason — that letting the marchers cross the fence and
detaining them later would have had worse consequences: Hamas operatives
masquerading as demonstrators would hurt Israelis.

Of course, the question of Israel’s larger policy toward Gaza remains. But the answer is hardly a secret: Israel pulled out of Gaza
more than a decade ago. All it wants from Gaza is peace and quiet. But
what it gets from Gaza is different: It is an attempt by Hamas to build a
base for violence against Israel. To prevent this, Gaza must be
isolated until its leaders are replaced or until they realize that their
war against Israel hurts the population they rule more than it hurts
Israel. And yes, this means that people in Gaza suffer more than they
should — not because of Israel, because of Hamas.

It
would be dishonest for me to pretend that the interests of Palestinians
are at the top of the list of my priorities. I want what’s good for
Israel and I expect my government to have similar priorities.
Nevertheless, I believe Israel’s current policy toward Gaza ultimately
benefits not only Israel but also the Palestinians.

Of
course, it does not benefit the Palestinians who dream about
“returning,” or in other words, about eliminating Israel. But it is the
only way forward for those who have more realistic expectations. The
people of Gaza are miserable. They deserve sympathy and pity. But
looking for Israel to remedy their problems will only exacerbate their
misery. Expecting Israel to solve their problem will only lead them to
delay what they must do for themselves.

There
are two reasons for that. First, denying Hamas any achievement is the
only way to ultimately persuade the Palestinians to abandon the futile
battle for things they cannot get (“return,” control of Jerusalem, the
elimination of Israel) and toward policies that will benefit their
people. If Hamas is rewarded for organizing violent events, if the
pressure on it is reduced because of the demonstrations, the result will
be more demonstrations — and therefore more bloodshed, mostly
Palestinian. Second, only an Israel that has the ability to feel secure
about its borders could engage in any serious talks with the
Palestinians. As Ehud Barak, a former prime minister and a critic of
Israel’s current government, put it,
“Those who believe in having separation from the Palestinians, getting
into a peace agreement, having borders — you have to make clear that
borders are respected.”

The Jewish
sages had a famous, if not necessarily pleasant, saying that went
something like this: Those who are kind to the cruel end up being cruel
to the kind. As harsh as this sounds amid the scenes from Gaza, as
problematic as this seems to good-intentioned people whose instinct is
to sympathize with the weaker side in every conflict, sometimes there is
no better choice than being clear, than being firm, than drawing a line
that cannot be crossed by those wanting to harm you. By fire, if
necessary.

FAR
ROCKAWAY, NY— Yeshiva Darchei Torah was privileged to welcome the
Honorable Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education of the United States,
for a tour
of its campus on Wednesday morning. Ms. DeVos made history as the
first-ever head of the federal Department of Education to visit a
yeshiva since the cabinet-level post was established in 1980.

The
first stop was a third-grade classroom, where the rebbi was in the
midst of a lesson on the shivas haminim. Using props from plastic fruit
to freshly
baked cookies, the rebbi ensured that the lesson came to life—and
Secretary DeVos clearly enjoyed following along. She was shown the
room’s SMART Board, one of many throughout the building, as an example
of the Yeshiva’s successful integration of technology
in the classroom.

Further
down the hallway, Ms. DeVos entered the Yeshiva’s Willens Literacy
Library, where she sat down and joined the fourth grade boys in learning
about
poetry.

The
Secretary’s next stop was to one of the crown jewels of Yeshiva Darchei
Torah, the Rabenstein Learning Center, where she witnessed some of the
300
students with special-education needs who regularly receive tutoring,
therapy and self-contained classroom instruction within the school
setting.

After
stopping in on a sixth grade class that was studying Gemara, the tour
moved across the campus to the Weiss Vocational Center, a trailblazing
program
where a select cadre of Mesivta students spend part of their afternoons
learning trades such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical contracting and
home wiring—in addition to a core curriculum that includes math,
sciences and language arts. The Secretary was shown
a fully-functioning bathroom built from top-to-bottom by the students
and watched as a talmid soldered an iron pipe. Another talmid presented
her with a gift: a skillfully hand-crafted wooden cutting board with an
American flag motif.

At
Mesivta Chaim Shlomo, Secretary DeVos joined a class of high school
bachurim for an enlightening, hands-on chemistry lesson in the Yeshiva’s
state-of-the-art
science laboratory.

Arriving
at the Yeshiva’s 5,000-square-foot bais hamedrash during first seder
was visibly an eye-opener for the secretary, as the hall reverberated
with
the sounds of hundreds of bachurim and yungeleit
learning together at wooden shtenders.
She approached one pair, who happily explained to her the basics of
studying Gemara with Rishonim and Acharonim and the efficacy of chavrusa
learning. The visitors were also introduced to bachurim with physical
disabilities who, in classic Darchei fashion,
are integrated within the regular Yeshiva framework.

The
delegation then walked across the campus promenade, passing the
Yeshiva’s spacious ballfields and magnificent playgrounds, for a brief
visit to a
room full of precocious children in the Harriet Keilson Early Childhood
Center.

The
tour was followed by a luncheon meeting with a cross-section of Yeshiva
Darchei Torah parents, teachers, alumni and board members, who shared
their
personal reflections with Secretary DeVos. Among the issues discussed
were the success of the Darchei educational model, including the dual
curriculum of limudei kodesh and limudei chol; the challenge of tuition
affordability; and the need to ensure that programs
for children with special needs receive their fair share of government
funding. Secretary DeVos listened attentively and offered her own
perspective on the need for continued advocacy on behalf of school
choice, on both the federal and state levels.

The
Secretary of Education was visibly moved by her visit to Yeshiva
Darchei Torah. As she made her way back to the waiting motorcade for her
return flight
to Washington, she commented that the children were amazing and that she
had seen some unique things at Darchei Torah that she had not seen at
any other school.

*

The
visit was widely covered in the mainstream press, which tended to focus
on the fact that Ms. DeVos visited only religious schools during this
swing
through New York.

Her
spokeswoman responded that in New York and across the country,
“religious education plays an important role in the education landscape.
Every child
and family has unique education needs, and for some, that means not
having to bifurcate religion from education.” The spokeswoman added that
the two-day visit to New York yeshiva institutions “gave the secretary
an opportunity to see firsthand how that’s working
for Orthodox families.”

Gaza’s Miseries Have Palestinian Authors

Palestinians
protesting at the Gaza border on Sunday. The large wooden key the boy
is holding symbolizes the Palestinians’ belief in their right of return.

For the third time in two weeks, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have set fire to the Kerem Shalom border crossing,
through which they get medicine, fuel and other humanitarian essentials
from Israel. Soon we’ll surely hear a great deal about the misery of
Gaza. Try not to forget that the authors of that misery are also the
presumptive victims.

There’s a
pattern here — harm yourself, blame the other — and it deserves to be
highlighted amid the torrent of morally blind, historically illiterate
criticism to which Israelis are subjected every time they defend
themselves against violent Palestinian attack.

In
1970, Israel set up an industrial zone along the border with Gaza to
promote economic cooperation and provide Palestinians with jobs. It had
to be shut down in 2004 amid multiple terrorist attacks that left 11 Israelis dead.

In
2005, Jewish-American donors forked over $14 million dollars to pay for
greenhouses that had been used by Israeli settlers until the government
of Ariel Sharon withdrew from the Strip.

In
2007, Hamas took control of Gaza in a bloody coup against its rivals in
the Fatah faction. Since then, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist
groups in the Strip have fired nearly 10,000 rockets and mortars from
Gaza into Israel — all the while denouncing an economic “blockade” that
is Israel’s refusal to feed the mouth that bites it. (Egypt and the
Palestinian Authority also participate in the same blockade, to zero
international censure.)

Which
brings us to the grotesque spectacle along Gaza’s border over the past
several weeks, in which thousands of Palestinians have tried to breach
the fence and force their way into Israel, often at the cost of their
lives. What is the ostensible purpose of what Palestinians call “the
Great Return March”?

That’s no mystery. This week, The Times published an op-ed by Ahmed Abu Artema,
one of the organizers of the march. “We are intent on continuing our
struggle until Israel recognizes our right to return to our homes and
land from which we were expelled,” he writes, referring to homes and
land within Israel’s original borders.

His
objection isn’t to the “occupation” as usually defined by Western
liberals, namely Israel’s acquisition of territories following the 1967
Six Day War. It’s to the existence of Israel itself. Sympathize with him
all you like, but at least notice that his politics demand the
elimination of the Jewish state.

Notice,
also, the old pattern at work: Avow and pursue Israel’s destruction,
then plead for pity and aid when your plans lead to ruin.

The
world now demands that Jerusalem account for every bullet fired at the
demonstrators, without offering a single practical alternative for
dealing with the crisis.

Elsewhere
in the world, this sort of behavior would be called reckless
endangerment. It would be condemned as self-destructive, cowardly and
almost bottomlessly cynical.

The
mystery of Middle East politics is why Palestinians have so long been
exempted from these ordinary moral judgments. How do so many so-called
progressives now find themselves in objective sympathy with the murderers, misogynists and homophobes of Hamas? Why don’t they note that, by Hamas’s own admission, some 50 of the 62 protesters killed on Monday were members of Hamas?

Why do they begrudge Israel the right to defend itself behind the very
borders they’ve been clamoring for years for Israelis to get behind?

Why
is nothing expected of Palestinians, and everything forgiven, while
everything is expected of Israelis, and nothing forgiven?

That’s
a question to which one can easily guess the answer. In the meantime,
it’s worth considering the harm Western indulgence has done to
Palestinian aspirations.

No
decent Palestinian society can emerge from the culture of victimhood,
violence and fatalism symbolized by these protests. No worthy
Palestinian government can emerge if the international community
continues to indulge the corrupt, anti-Semitic
autocrats of the Palestinian Authority or fails to condemn and sanction
the despotic killers of Hamas. And no Palestinian economy will ever
flourish through repeated acts of self-harm and destructive provocation.

If
Palestinians want to build a worthy, proud and prosperous nation, they
could do worse than try to learn from the one next door. That begins by
forswearing forever their attempts to destroy it.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

These Holy Men Used Their Influence To Have YouTube Take Down The Video

COURTESY - THE JEWISH ONION

Written by Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits of KOF-K Kosher Supervision

There are many inyunim of tznius which people think are permitted when in fact they are not. Our main focus will be on Kol Isha and all the halachos that apply to it.Chazal say one who is careful with hilchostznius is kodesh.[1] Fortunate is the person who watches himself from being nichshal in these halachos,[2] since the sins that one does in these inyunim distance a person from Torah.[3]Kol Isha – The Voice of a Woman

The Gemorah in Berochos[4] says that the voice of a [married] woman is an ervah,[5] since it may bring a person to certain desires.[6] According to many poskim this issur is d’rabanan in nature,[7] and often applies to one’s wife as well.[8] One is not allowed to hear the voice of a woman while she is singing[9] even without specific intent to enjoy her voice. A woman’s non-singing voice is permitted to be heard[10] as long as one is not listening with specific intent to enjoy her voice.[11]

Single Girls

Many poskim say one is also forbidden to hear the singing voice of a single girl.[16] There is a discussion in the poskim as to what age this issur begins. Some poskim say the age starts from three,[17] others say it starts at six,[18] and others say the issur begins at nine years old.[19]Horav Moshe Feinstein zt”l[20] says in a pressing situation one can be lenient until the age of eleven.[21]

[9] Shulchan
Aruch 75:3, E.H. 21:1, Chai Adom 4:6, This issur applies even if one
is used to hearing a womans voice (Yabea Omer O.C. 1:6:11:pages 21-22).This also applies to parts of davening that she may sing (Refer to Yufei Leleiv 1:75:3). `

[21] Ohr L’tzyion 2:6:footnote 13. Refer to Mishnah Berurah 75:17 who says besulos who start reaching their time of period are ervahs.
Some say this is 12 years old (Divrei Chachumim page 252:36 quoting the
opinion of Horav Sheinberg Shlita, Toras Histaklus page 39).

Shomrim grew out of a neighborhood watch group known as the “Bakery
Boys” in 1990s – young men who delivered bread at night and witnessed
lots of car break-ins, but the group has always been controversial.
Daskal was a founding member, and has been an intermediary between the
NYPD’s 66th Precinct and his Boro Park community ever since.

“Since then, Daskal and the Shomrim have cultivated close ties to the local precinct. A former member of the Shomrim told the Forward in 2016 that
Daskal was able to arrange for Orthodox Jews arrested on minor crimes
in Boro Park to be released with a ticket ordering them to appear before
a judge, rather than being booked through the central system. Daskal
denied at the time that he played that role”, Forward wrote on Friday.

“In 2012, Daskal argued against giving police access publicly-funded
security cameras installed throughout Boro Park, telling the Forward
that it could lead to unwanted police involvement in domestic violence
matters. “The camera is very good for the community, but if it’s a
private thing,” Daskal told the Forward at the time. “If it’s a public thing it might hurt a person who doesn’t want to arrest her husband for domestic violence.”

“The Shomrim have helped the police maintain a community that’s
mostly free of the shootings in the streets and crimes that usually end
up in the media,” Ben Hirsch, a founder of Survivors for Justice, a group that advocates for victims of sexual violence within the Orthodox community told The Village Voice in 2011.
“But you do still have some of the terrible social crimes that police
would normally be responding to. Instead, within these communities,
these crimes are usually reported to Shomrim, and the Shomrim
coordinators working together with Orthodox Jewish “community liaisons”
cover it up, and it never gets to the cops.”

Such crimes seem to mostly relate to child and domestic abuse. Daskal let it slip in a conversation with the Daily News
the aftermath of the Kletzky case that Shomrim kept a list of suspected
child molesters that had about 15 people on it that was not shared with
the NYPD” because some rabbis oppose civilian police involvement”.

“It’s against Halacha [Jewish law] to go the police without speaking
to the rabbis,” Rabbi Joseph Hershkowitz confirmed to the Daily News
back in 2011. “We consider Shomrim and Hatzolah [the Jewish ambulance
service] family. So you go to family first.”

NY1's
coverage of yesterday's ZA'AKAH's press conference outside of Simcha
Felder's district office. Thank you so much to everyone who came, and a
special thank you to Rabbi Barry Kornblau for standing with us, and lending your voice to this critical issue. Below is a full text of my statement:

We're here outside Senator Simcha Felder's district office because he
is the tiebreaking vote in the New York State senate right now. As
evidenced by the recent budget negotiation in the senate, while John
Flanagan might be the majority leader, it's Felder's word that for now
is literally law. And I know how you feel about the Child Victims Act,
Simcha, you told me how you feel about it in 2016. You will not support
any bill with a lookback window.

As a former constituent of
yours, let me tell you why that position is hurting your constituents,
and community. I grew up on 15th avenue and 48th street, in Boro Park, 4
blocks away from your then city council office. I was abused by my
mother for years just 4 blocks from your office. The idea, at the time,
of reporting was so far out of the realm of possibility, the very
thought of it was laughable. I can't count the number of times the
police were called to my house, I can't count the number of times they
handed me a complaint form and a pen and asked me if I had something to
tell them.

What I do remember vividly is my grandmother
pleading with me, begging me, not to report. "Think of what the
neighbors will say. Think of what will happen when it's time for
shidduchim. No one will want to marry you." So I stayed quiet. When I
was finally ready to come forward and disclose, she again begged me,
"think of your shidduchim." By then I'd given up on the possibility of
finding a shidduch through a shadchan. "Ok, but think of your cousins.
They're trying to get married now, think of how this would ruin their
shidduch chances," she begged. And again, I kept quiet.

I
begged my family to intervene. Even though they were literally witness
to much of my abuse, they didn't care enough to do anything. They said I
was making it up to justify my bad behaviour. I had dropped out of
school and gone to work so I could earn enough money to be
self-sufficient. I stayed there until three years ago, age 23 because I
was worried about my grandmother who by that time was also a victim of
my mother. I thought I could protect her.

I can no longer report what happened to me when I was a minor because New York's Statute of limitations won't allow it.

Simcha, you may think we don't remember, you may think that by the time
we're 23 we've already gotten over it, but we haven't. Baruch Hashem I
was able to run away at age 23, and with the help of some very generous
people, build a life for myself. But when I'm alone at night, it comes
back to me. All those years of locking myself in my room, terrified of
what she'd do to me next, the threats, the horror she made my life, the
invasion, the violation of who I was, the times she tried to kill me,
the terror she instilled in me. Every time I hear a knock on the door of
my new, safe home I jump, because my body remembers what a sudden noise
might mean. My body remembers being in constant danger and can't
forget.

When I worked at Our Place, on avenue M and east 18th, I
met dozens of kids who hadn't been so lucky. Kids who had been abused
and had been forced into silence. Kids who dropped out of school, were
addicted to drugs, sleeping on the streets, self-harming, depressed,
suicidal, kids who did anything and everything they could think of to
numb the pain, to make it stop, to just go away, if only for a little
while. We were able to save some of them. Some of them we couldn't. Some
of them died. We put them on our ever-growing wall, a damning testament
to the inaction of our community in the face of sexual predators
violating children.

You may not hear these stories, Simcha, but
I do. Every single day from people in this community, people who
themselves were abused, people whose children have been abused, people
who are too terrified to speak up for fear of ruining their family's
shidduchim, of losing their jobs, their homes, of being thrown out of
their shuls, of their children being expelled from yeshivas for daring
to report, for daring to go against Agudah's psak, and report sexual
abuse to the police without first asking a rav for permission.

Sexual abuse is covered up every day in this community, Simcha, and it's
made even easier by all the communal pressures we as frum Jews have.
Shidduchim, not wanting to be a moiser, daas torah, emunas chachamim,
fear of causing a chillul hashem, there are a dozen different leverage
points used by the community to keep victims of child sexual abuse
silent until they're 23 and it's too late for them to get justice.

You know what that means, Simcha? It means that hundreds of sexual
predators are loose in your district, in the frum community, protected
by the law, because their victims who are under 23 are too terrified to
report, and the survivors over 23 are barred from reporting by law.
That's why we need the lookback window, Simcha. Those survivors deserve
their day in court. They deserve the chance to confront their abuser in
court and identify them so the community knows who they are and whom to
stay away from. A survivor should never hear "I'm sorry, find me someone
else who was sexually abused more recently" when they go to the police
to report being sexually abused.

We need to eliminate the civil
and criminal statutes of limitation going forward so survivors know
that if they're not safe enough to report right now, they'll still have
the chance to get justice when they are. We need to open the lookback
window so the predators who have thus far remained hidden behind New
York State law in our community can be identified, and the institutions
that enabled their abuse can be held accountable.

We need the
Child Victims Act, Simcha Felder. Children are dying in your community
because they were sexually abused and have no access to justice. Do you
care enough, do you have the courage to do the right thing for District
17's children?

I know, people are worried about what might
happen to yeshivos if this passes. I'm sorry, but I don’t understand
what the hand wringing is about. If it we were dealing with an epidemic
of murders in the community, committed by yeshiva faculty, and covered
up by yeshiva administrations, we’d be up in arms, demanding justice.
Somehow with sexual abuse it’s different.

And why? You know as
well as I do, Simcha, that abuse is retzicha. You know as well as I do
that children die every single year from suicide, eating disorders, and
drug overdose, as a direct result of sexual abuse they’ve suffered. You
know as well as I do that the effects of sexual abuse include PTSD,
panic attacks, anxiety disorders, depression, suicidal ideation, eating
disorders, self-harm, addiction, among a host of other problems. Is the
difference between sexual abuse and murder that sexual abuse kills them
more slowly, or that it’s so darn common that we’ve become desensitized
to it?

We talk a lot about crises in the frum community. How is
this not something that instills in community members and leaders a
sense of crisis? How many kids have to die, how many have to become
addicted to drugs, how many have to live on the street, how many have to
starve themselves, cut themselves, hang themselves, stab themselves,
drown themselves, overdose themselves, until you actually help us do
something about it?

If kids were dying every day in yeshivos,
would you be so pareve about what should be done, or would you be out on
the front lines demanding change and justice? Is it that these kids
don’t die in yeshivos themselves, but on the street a few years later
after they’ve lost everything and everyone, and kill themselves just to
end the pain? Do you no longer recognize them as important at that point
because they’re so far gone at that point from the yeshiva that covered
up their abuse that you don’t care anymore?

I hope you care,
Simcha, and I understand, you’re worried about hypothetical children not
being able to get into hypothetically closed yeshovs. Simcha, we have
real children, really dying, right now, and we need to change that.

We have a real bill really in front of us, and we’re in real need of
real support. Don’t let hypothetical concerns about hypothetical
problems blind you, or distract you from the very real, and very present
problem of children being abused, and their abusers and enablers hiding
behind New York State law to deny them justice. Don’t let yourself be
blinded to the fact that more and more kids are dying every day while we
sit here and quibble about the degrees to which we should pursue their
roitzchim.

I’m sorry if I seem impatient. I don’t have the
luxury to be patient. I’ve been fighting for this for 3 years. I was
abused for 23 years. I’ve lost I don’t know how many friends to suicide,
and I’m sick and tired of waiting.

Time to Call Obama and Kerry What They Are: Traitors

We have met the enemy and he is in the White House.

JULY 15, 2015 - UOJ ARCHIVES:

by Daniel Greenfield,

The last time a feeble leader of a fading nation came bearing
“Peace in our time,” a pugnacious controversial right-winger retorted,
“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor,
and you will have war.” That right-winger went on to lead the United
Kingdom against Hitler.

The latest worthless agreement with a
murderous dictatorship is being brandished by John Kerry, a man who
instinctively seeks out dishonor the way a pig roots for truffles.

John Kerry betrayed his uniform and his nation so many times that it
became his career. He illegally met with the representatives of the
North Vietnamese enemy in Paris and then next year headed to Washington,
D.C. where he blasted the American soldiers being murdered by his new
friends as rapists and murderers “reminiscent of Genghis Khan.”

Even before being elected, Kerry was already spewing Communist propaganda in the Senate.

Once in the Senate, Kerry flew to support the Sandinista Marxist
killers in Nicaragua. Just as Iran’s leader calling for “Death to
America” didn’t slow down Kerry, neither did the Sandinista cries of
“Here or There, Yankees Will Die Everywhere.”

Kerry revolted
even liberals with his gushing over Syria’s Assad. Now he’s playing the
useful idiot for Assad’s bosses in Tehran.

For almost fifty
years, John Kerry has been selling out American interests to the enemy.
Iran is his biggest success. The dirty Iran nuke deal is the culmination
of his life’s many treasons.

It turns America from an
opponent of Iran’s expansionism, terrorism and nuclear weapons program
into a key supporter. The international coalition built to stop Iran’s
nukes will instead protect its program.
And none of this would have happened without Obama.

Obama began his rise by pandering to radical leftists on removing
Saddam. He urged them to take on Egypt instead, and that’s what he did
once in office, orchestrating the takeover of the Muslim Brotherhood in
Egypt and across the region. The Muslim Brotherhood was overthrown by
popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, but Obama had preserved the
Iranian regime when it was faced with the Green Revolution. Now Iran is
his last best Islamist hope for stopping America in the Middle East.

Obama and Kerry had both voted against designating Iran’s IRGC
terrorist ringleaders who were organizing the murder of American
soldiers as a terrorist organization while in the Senate. Today they
have turned our planes into the Air Force of the IRGC’s Shiite Islamist
militias in Iraq.

Throughout the process they chanted, “No deal is better than a bad deal.” But their deal isn’t just bad. It’s treason.

Obama isn’t Chamberlain. He doesn’t mean well. Kerry isn’t making
honest mistakes. They negotiated ineptly with Iran because they are
throwing the game. They meant for America to lose all along.

When Obama negotiates with Republicans, he extracts maximum concessions
for the barest minimum. Kerry did the same thing with Israel during the
failed attempt at restarting peace negotiations with the PLO. That’s how
they treat those they consider their enemies. This is how they treat
their friends.

A bad deal wasn’t just better than no deal, it was better than a good deal.

Obama did not go into this to stop Iran from going nuclear. He did it
to turn Iran into the axis of the Middle East. After his failures in the
rest of the region, this is his final act of spite. With the fall of
the Muslim Brotherhood and the decline of Islamists in Turkey,
supporting Iran is his way of blocking the power of his successors in
the White House to pursue a more pro-American foreign policy.

Obama made this deal to cripple American power in the Middle East.

And Obama made sure the Iran deal was written to make the proof as hard to obtain as possible.

Iran get to keep its nuclear facilities, its reactors, including the
hidden underground fortified Fordow facility which Obama had repeatedly
stated was, “inconsistent with a peaceful program.”

The deal
gives Iran a “peaceful” nuclear program with an equally peaceful
ballistic missile program. It puts into place a complicated inspection
regime that can be blocked by Iran and its backers. It turns Iran into
the new North Korea and the new Saddam Hussein, lavishing money on it
while running future administrations through a cat and mouse game of
proving violations by the terrorist regime.

That hasn’t stopped Obama from lying and claiming that “Inspectors
will have 24/7 access to Iran’s nuclear facilities.” Meanwhile France's
Foreign Minister, somewhat more accurately put it, “The IAEA will be
able to gain access to Iran's military sites, if necessary, under
certain conditions.”

Iran will be able to stall for almost a month,
offer alternatives, and then put the matter down to a vote. It will do
this as many times as it can to wear down the nerves and attention of
investigators. The practical process is routed through a separate roadmap
which references separate arrangements and leaves the consequences
unstated. It’s a bureaucratic rabbit hole with nothing at the other end.

Bureaucrats will pore over maps and argue over timetables for
inspections schedules while Iran goes nuclear right under their noses.

The centrifuges will go on spinning
and Iran will receive aid in developing its “peaceful” nuclear program.
Obama’s $140 billion sanctions relief will flow into Iran’s weapons
programs as Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered that “at least 5% of the
public budget” go to the military with a special emphasis on “missile technology” for the terrorist state.

One of the first items on Iran’s shopping list will be Russia’s S300
missile system to keep Israel or a future American administration from
taking out Iran’s nuclear program. But Iran is also pursuing ICBMs that
can strike at Europe and America. Obama’s decision to phase out the
ballistic missile sanctions on Iran will make it easier for Iran to
build weapons that can destroy major American cities.

And Iran’s new cash will empower it to fund terrorism in Israel, America and around the world.

Obama claims to “have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons” by
allowing Iran to keep enhancing its nuclear program and rewarding it
with ballistic missiles for its “peaceful” intentions. He claims to have
negotiated “from a position of strength and principle” when in fact he
surrendered to the Iranians on position after position. Tehran
negotiated from strength and principle.

Obama sold out America.

As Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen put it, “This deal sets in place
every key component of a nuclear program that Iran needs to develop a
weapon.”

Obama has turned America into a state sponsor of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

“When I was a platoon leader in Iraq, my soldiers and I faced deadly
roadside bombs, made and supplied by Iran. I tried to reassure them, but
I could only tell them to hope it wasn’t our day to die by Iran’s
roadside bombs,” Senator Tom Cotton said. “If Iran obtains a nuclear
weapon, I fear the United States will only be able to hope it isn’t our
day to die by an Iranian nuclear bomb."

Obama and Kerry had
opposed standing by American soldiers under fire from Iran’s terrorism.
Now their treason has taken Iran from aiming roadside bombs to aiming
nuclear bombs at Americans.

Instead of stopping Iran from
going nuclear, Obama has become the Ayatollah’s economic errand boy,
committed by the deal to pressure municipal funds in California and New
York to reinvest in Iran.

When Senator Tom Cotton, a man who
unlike Obama had served in the military, dared to warn Tehran that the
United States was a democracy whose elected officials would get a vote
on the Iran deal, the administration’s flunkies denounced him and fellow
senators as the #47Traitors in a hashtag.

The real traitor was always in the White House. And it’s time we called his foreign policy what it is.

Treason.

Obama and Kerry have not made this deal as representatives of the
United States, but as representatives of a toxic ideology that views
America as the cause of all that is wrong in the world.

This is not an
agreement that strengthens us and keeps us safe, but an agreement that
weakens us and endangers us negotiated by men who believe that a strong
Iran is better than a strong America.

Their ideology is that
of the screaming anti-war protester denouncing American forces and
foreign policy anywhere and everywhere, whose worldview has changed
little since crying, “Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh. NLF is going to win” in the
streets. The only difference is that he now wears an expensive suit.

Their ideology is not America. It is not American. It is the same
poisonous left-wing hatred which led Kerry to the Viet Cong, to the
Sandinistas and to Assad. It is the same resentment of America that
Obama carried to Cairo, Havana and Tehran. We have met the enemy and he
is in the White House.

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Rav Yosef Blau Shlita

***CLICK ON PHOTO!*** "Batei Din in our times are not effective in dealing with criminal behavior. Lacking the investigative arm of the police and having restrictive standards of testimony they can not establish guilt. When the culprit is charismatic, he can often get protégés who feel indebted to him to lie to the Beis Din. It takes years before those who have been abused as youngsters to openly face their abuser."

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Ehud asked me to pardon him!

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